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30 Days of Photos IV - Day 30 - Happily Ever After - Bonus

Yeah, yeah, 2 posts in one day. On some days it was hard enough just to come up with one. But this was what first hit me when I saw today's prompt, and I couldn't let it go because no one else did it.

This song and video are from 1967. Some of you may not even have been born then. The rest of you might enjoy this blast from the past. I dedicate this to all the participants. Because, for 30 days,  we were all so happy together.




Keep rockin' you guys.
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Lauren said…
LOL! I recently saw that clip. I think on PBS. I worked for Paul Atkinson from the band, The Zombies i the early 80s. I was a secretary in the A&R department of Columbia Records. What a fun time that was.
30 September 2013 at 23:12
nonamedufus said…
That is so cool, Lauren. What I would have done to trade places with you. I recently read Howard Kaylan's autobiography. Wild times.
30 September 2013 at 23:25
Lauren said…
Who is Howard Kaylan?
30 September 2013 at 23:28
Debra She Who Seeks said…
I was an old lady of 10 when that song came out. I remember it well!
30 September 2013 at 23:28
nonamedufus said…
I was an old man of 15.
30 September 2013 at 23:31
nonamedufus said…
He was one of the lead singers for the Turtles. The skinnier one. They went on to become the Florescent Leech and Eddie and, believe it or not, they sang with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
30 September 2013 at 23:32
nonamedufus said…
I did, indeed, but I'm into that kind of thing. If you check out the books page on my blog you'll see I read something connected to the music industry every one and a while. Here's a review.

http://www.popmatters.com/review/171299-shell-shocked-my-life-with-the-turtles-by-howard-kaylan/
30 September 2013 at 23:47
Lauren said…
Thanks. It sounds interesting. Paul Atkinson told me that they had a terrible contract when he was in The Zombies. They made no money back then. Paul died years ago. He was such an incredibly nice guy.I had the pleasure of working with him for about two years.
1 October 2013 at 00:05
Ziva said…
The only one for me is you, Dufus. (Just don't tell M.) I absolutely love this song, and it's the perfect ending to Bob. So happy together, indeed.
1 October 2013 at 01:31
Traci Shannon said…
I love this one especially because this is my parents' song. They have been married for almost 44 years and they are still goofy for this song!
:-)
Traci
1 October 2013 at 01:56
nonamedufus said…
That was the unfortunate case with groups from the 60s. They got screwed by either their managers or their record companies. Hey, my first slow dance was to The Zombies, but I can't remember the bame of the song.
1 October 2013 at 06:00
nonamedufus said…
You're making me feel old Traci.
1 October 2013 at 06:00
nonamedufus said…
It was good for me Ziva. Was it good for you? *blows out cigarette smoke*
1 October 2013 at 06:02
Paula Larew Wooters said…
What a great song to wake up to this morning! I used to love that one back in my teeny bopper days.
1 October 2013 at 06:28
babs (beetle) said…
And I was a wrinkly at 21 :)
1 October 2013 at 07:41
babs (beetle) said…
Oh what a happy blast from the past! This was 1967? I was so young then ha ha!
1 October 2013 at 07:42
Lauren said…
That is so sweet. I've got "Can't Remember Shit" disorder, too. Happens to us once we start shuffling down the hill.
1 October 2013 at 09:02
nonamedufus said…
Okay I Googled and I think it was Tell Her No. And up here we call it CRAFT: Can't Remember A Fuckjn' Thing.
1 October 2013 at 09:12
nonamedufus said…
Yeah, surprising the taste we had in music back then, eh? But it worked for the times.
1 October 2013 at 09:13
nonamedufus said…
Yeah, many of us were a lot younger. That video's kind of kitschy too, don't you think?
1 October 2013 at 09:13
nonamedufus said…
Wrinkly at 21? Babs you got a good start on middle age, then, didn't you?
1 October 2013 at 09:39
Linda Medrano said…
OMG! I hadn't heard that for over 40 years!
1 October 2013 at 11:01
babs (beetle) said…
Some things were a bit kitschy in the mid sixties :)
1 October 2013 at 11:03
babs (beetle) said…
Ha ha! I refuse to be a wrinkly, though I'm not sure what good that does :)
1 October 2013 at 11:04
nonamedufus said…
You're showing your age, Linda. I just read an autobiography by the lead singer and had to buy the Best of the Turtles. That, of course, was one of the songs, along with some Dylan numbers like It Ain't Me Babe.
1 October 2013 at 11:07
nonamedufus said…
I don't thin it's something we have any control over, Babs.
1 October 2013 at 11:09
Linda Medrano said…
I've never hidden my age! My son was born in 1967 when I was 21.
1 October 2013 at 11:15
babs (beetle) said…
Nope and it's more important to be young at heart :)
1 October 2013 at 11:21
nonamedufus said…
I never said you were hiding it. And you wear it well, my dear.
1 October 2013 at 11:39
nonamedufus said…
Oh you bet. Although I find there a times the body can't keep up with what the heart wants to doQ
1 October 2013 at 11:40
nonamedufus said…
And of course, at times the mind starts to forget!
1 October 2013 at 12:22
Ziva said…
It was better than good, stud.
1 October 2013 at 12:24
nonamedufus said…
Oh my! Here in Quebec I'm known as a deux par quatre (2x4).
1 October 2013 at 12:42
babs (beetle) said…
Stop! You're depressing me now hahahaha!
1 October 2013 at 15:26
meleahrebeccah said…
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 October 2013 at 13:16
nonamedufus said…
I take it you like it, then?
2 October 2013 at 14:08
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